Sanskrit Word List

A rock, stone.

A gallinule.

a. [kath-ṇvul] A narrator, a relator. kaḥ 1 A chief actor, speaker of a prologue.

2 A dis- putant.

3 A story-teller.

kaṭhākuḥ is an alternate of kaṭākuḥ. A bird.

Gravel.

ind. [kim-prakārārthethamu kādeśaśca] 1 How, in what way, in what manner, whence; kathaṃ mārātmake tvayi viśvāsaḥ H. 1; atha sa vaidyaḥ kathaṃ Mu. 2 ‘well how did the physician...

An epithet of Śiva.

a. (tkī f.) Accom- plished with difficulty.

What sort or manner.

2 Inquiry, question' demand.

a. Telling, talkative. naṃ narration, relation, description.

A small tale; e. g. Vetā- lapanchavimśati.

a. 1 To be said or told [Page0373-c+ 57] or declared.

2 Worthy of relation, to be named.

Den. P. To tell, relate &c.

a. Hard, stiff.

a. Telling, speaking.

a. Living in distress. raḥ A needy or distressed man, a pau- per.

Chalk.

1 A narrator.

2 A story- teller.

[kathāyāṃ sādhuḥ, kathā-ṭhak] A narrator of stories; also a writer of stories.

8 U. 1 To reduce to a tale.

2 To cause to remain only in narration.

a. Remaining in narration (only), dead, deceased; Ku. 4. 13.

N. of a tree commonly called tulasī.

a. 1 Hard, stiff; kaṭhinavi- ṣamāmekaveṇīṃ sārayaṃtīṃ Me. 92; Amaru. 72; Mu. 2. 20; so ºstanau.

2 Hard- hearted, cruel, ruthless; na vidīrye kaṭhi- nāḥ khalu striyaḥ Ku. 4. 5;...

1 Hardness, tight- ness; kāṭhinyamuktastanaṃ Ś. 3. 10.

2 Sternness, hard-heartedness, cruelty.

3 Difficulty, obscurity (of style).

1 Hardness, firmness.

2 Severity.

3 Cruelty, hard-heart- edness; Ki. 10. 51.

4 Difficulty, obscurity.

1 Chalk.

2 The little finger.

p. p. 1 Told, described, narrated.

2 Expressed. taḥ The supreme being. taṃ A conversation, discourse; pūrvavṛttakathitaiḥ purāvidaḥ R. 11. 10. Comp. padaṃ-padatā...

a. Hard, resisting.

a. 1 Hard(fig. also), solid, stiff; kaṭhorāsthigrāṃthi Māl. 5. 34.

2 Cruel, hard-hearted, ruthless; ayi kaṭhora yaśaḥ kila te priyaṃ U. 3. 27; so ºhṛdaya, ºcitta.

3 Sharp,...

Hardness, firmness, severity.

Den. P. To furnish with buds, expand the blossoms of; Māl. 9. 41.

pron. a. [kim + ḍati] (always declined in the plural only; kati, ka- tibhiḥ &c.) 1 How many; katyagnayaḥ kati sūryāsaḥ Rv. 10. 88. 18; ebhirbhūtaiḥ smara kati kṛtāḥ svāṃta te...

a. Wishing, desiring.

ind. 1 How often.

2 In how many places or parts.

f. [kaṭ-in] 1 The hip.

2 The buttocks (considered by rhetoricians as vulgar and colloqui- al in these senses; the word kaṭi in kaṭiste harate manaḥ is said to be grāmya.)

3 An...

The hip.

ind. How many times.

A kind of gourd.

A species of the Bal- sam apple.

a. 1 Matted, screened.

2 Having handsome loins &c. m. An elephant.

a. [kati-ayac puk ca] 1 Some, several, a certain number; katipayaku- sumodgamaḥ kadaṃbaḥ U. 3. 20; Me. 23; katipayadivasāpagame some days having elapsed; varṇaiḥ katipayaireva...

a. Advanced to a certain place or degree.

1 A cave, hollow.

2 The cavity of the loins, raṃ A hip.

The posteriors, hips; Śi. 13. 34.

ind. How many at a time.

A crooked sword.

a. How many kinds.

a. Belonging to Kā- tyāyana. yaḥ A pupil of the sage.